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A$AP Rocky: King of “The New Kids on the Block”

By: JP DelaCuesta (@JPdelacuesta)Category: Features

Harlem’s self proclaimed “pretty mother f*cker” has taken the viral Hip-Hop game by storm as of late. Making his debut on the scene with the infectious ode to Houston screw music, “Purple Swag,” A$AP Rocky immediately raised eyebrows, taking all curious minds away from a slew of fellow recent viral stars, and placing the focus on his Uptown crew – who simply like to hold each other down, get high, drink brew, and kick it.

Then, his follow-up single dropped, the even better tune, “Peso,” which found its way straight to New York radio airwaves as Hot 97 quickly adopted the loose hit. His eclectic grace makes most wonder how a young Harlem cat can bust on the scene with early Houston-influenced flows, “swaggy” bars similar to Wiz Khalifa, and a brotherhood lifestyle last depicted in the early ’90s on the West Coast. Fond of Old English 40’s and tied up gangsta-style bandannas – A$AP Rocky is going in for the kill, and he’s bringing his crew alongside with him.

AllHipHop.com spent some time with the newly-signed artist at the Polo Grounds Music offices in Manhattan. In the first part of the interview, Rocky speaks on his rumored $3 million deal, his new label, A$AP Worldwide, and what venues that book him in the future need to know after his well-publicized Fader Fort performance/debacle during October’s CMJ Music Marathon in New York City:

The rapidly rising star will soon be seen touring alongside Drake and Kendrick Lamar as part of the “Club Paradise Tour.” In the second part of the interview, he shares his thoughts on his tour-mates’ music before he compares Drake to “the modern day Jay-Z,” and Kendrick Lamar to a combination of OutKast and Nas. He then comes up with an interesting comparison for himself involving two Hip-Hop titans and one Rock ‘N Roll idol:

His first mixtape, Live.Love.Asap, released for free on Halloween, mostly features in-house production and guest verses coming from the likes of Clams Casion, A$AP Ty Beats, Spaceghostpurrp, and more. Aside from being a collective of rappers and producers, “the new kids on the block,” as Rocky refers to all of the A$AP crew, includes a number of “fashion n*ggas,” too. In the last part of the interview, he speaks on his mixtape and the entire A$AP movement:

During the interview, Rocky also revealed that he had recently directed the music video for Fool’s Gold rapper Danny Brown’s new single, “Blunt After Blunt.” On the set, he shared that artists like Mos Def and Kendrick Lamar made appearances, as did comedian Dave Chappelle. You can check a video of Rocky sharing some advice that Chappelle gave him here and also see and hear his thoughts on the rumored Odd Future beef here.

Download “A$AP Rocky – Live.Love. A$AP.” Now!


Epic Win of the Day: “In Living Color” Returning in 2012!

By: JP DelaCuesta (@JPdelacuesta)Category: Rumors

Two mid-season specials of the iconic sketch comedy show “In Living Color” are in the works for the Fox Network’s 25th Anniversary. If proven to be successful, the specials will have a series option for the 2012 season. The show’s previous creator, Keenen Ivory Wayans, will act as executive producer and host for its remake.

The 1990s sketch show which broke a number of stars including “Fly Girl” Jennifer Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier, and Damon Wayans, featured a number of hilarious sketches and characters. Fire Marshall Bill, Handi Man, and Homey Da Clown all became household names during the show’s run.

Currently, no cast has been announced, although it has been said that an all-new comedic crew will be a part of the relaunch.

Wonder if we’ll get a new Homey?

Odd Future’s Left Brain Accused Of Assault

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) A member of hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All has been accused of striking a female photographer over the weekend at a music festival.

Odd Future’s Left Brain is accused of striking a female photographer during the Voodoo Experience Festival on Sunday (October 30).

According to the Chicago Tribune, the group ‘s frontman Tyler the Creator voiced his dislike for photographers during the performance and complained that they were blocking fans of the group.

Shortly after Tyler’s rant, Left Brain allegedly showered photographers with water kicked their equipment and finally assaulted a woman named Amy Harris.

“I have worked many shows before, and I’ve had to deal with a band flinging water at the photographers, but I never expected this to happen,” Amy Harris told Chicago Tribune.

Although she was allegedly assaulted, Ms. Harris declined to press charges against Left Brain or the group.

A rep for the group dismissed the charges.

“There simply is no truth to the accusation floating around the internet,” a rep for Left Brain said in a statement to Billboard. “It’s no secret that Odd Future has a love/hate relationship with photographers at shows. (It’s) simply because they are given access the group wishes their fans would have instead. After telling the photographers to clear out multiple times (as they’ve done before) Vyron (Left Brain) took a swipe at a few cameras, NOT people. To manipulate the situation to insinuate an attack on a woman specifically is careless and manipulative.”

 

Music Review: Wale’s “Ambition”

By: seandrasimsCategory: Reviews / Music

Rating: 7/10

Around the time Attention Deficit dropped, the idea of Wale being signed under Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group label was the thought of someone with a wild imagination. After much mainstream hype and underground acclaim, the DMV-representer went through somewhat of a dull period. Looking to rekindle the buzz he had just a couple of years ago, Ambition, Mr. Wale Folarin’s second effort, bears the signature Maybach tag. But, is that a good thing?

There are songs on this album that Wale couldn’t have made a year ago. His raunchy new label has given him the right-of-way, or perhaps the ego, to create more braggadocious records. “Legendary” is a prime example of this. Produced by DJ Toomp, the cocky snares and stirring horns sound tailor-made for a Rick Ross verse, and Wale’s big flow seems to support this. But he makes the record his own, with an intoxicating, nonchalant hook – “F*ck fame, f*ck money/And f*ck anything/Anyone can take from ya.” “Chain Music” is another one of these tracks, boasting heavy bass and a Rozay sample on the hook. And sure to hit a club near you, “Slight Work,” featuring a standout verse from Big Sean – “Under 25, living the f*cking life/White America said I’d be doing 25-to-life”- is egotistical line after egotistical line, in a good way.

But Wale is dope on his own accord, with tracks like “Don’t Hold Your Applause” and “Double M Genius” sounding more like typical Wale joints, but it’s clear his sound as changed – which works for and against him. “No Days Off” and “DC or Nothing” are inconsistent listens, but “Ambition” with Meek Mill and Rick Ross is a dope record.  Two of the ‘girl’ songs, “Sabotage” and “White Linen (Coolin’)” featuring Lloyd and Ne-Yo, respectively, are average, but “Lotus Flower Bomb” with Miguel is a hit.

Overall, Ambition becomes an album of inconsistencies. As a rapper, Wale never dips with one-liners on each and every song, but as a song-maker there are peaks and valleys, as Folarin doesn’t have enough lines to salvage a tired subject. Individually, these tracks are all a pretty good listen, but through the course of the album’s flow, they begin to blend together instead of impress – which is why you’ll love a track on the first listen, but then might forget about it when you play it a week later. Remember a time when Washington, D.C.’s Go-Go influence served as a winning staple on just about every Wale song and project? This is nowhere to be found here. And yes, Ambition is a pretty decent album – but it won’t stick out the way his early mixtapes did. Is he “Focused” like Cudi says? Perhaps, but true Wale fans will look for more substance and clashing drums on his projects. At least you’ll have the wordplay to hold you over.

 

Hip-Hop Rumors: Rihanna Goes To The Hospital!

By: Chuck Creekmur (@ChuckCreekmur)Category: Rumors

RIHANNA GOES TO THE HOSPITAL

This is fact. Rihanna had to cancel a concert and was freakin’ hospitalized with the flu. She was so dear that she gave the fans and apology to Sweden.

“I am sorry to everyone who was coming out to my show in Malmo, Sweden. I was so excited to perform for you all. It would have been a great time…so much better than being sick with the flu, ugh! I’m really disappointed I couldn’t be there.”

She’s all good.

ILLSEED’S QUICKIES

Amber Rose will now be a prominent feature on Master of the Mix, a show on BET. I guest Just Blaze and a bunch of celebrity DJs wasn’t enough.

LMAO! Kim Kardashian getting a divorce. I know that dude Kris couldn’t take that his wiz was on camera with Ray-J. He couldn’t take it!

Terrell Owens is requesting a reduction in his child support. Dude isn’t working and he claims that he need a break on the cake. Believe it or not, I agree with him.

Drake is rumored to be creeping around with former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger. She just broke up with her man, the race car driver dude.

How to Rob an Industry…2011

By: Chuck Creekmur (@ChuckCreekmur)Category: Uncategorized
“To the sellouts living it up, one way or another you’ll be givin’ it up.”                                                                             Tupac on “Holla if ya Hear Me” A decade ago, 50 Cent had the industry shook when he put out “How to Rob;” a song where he threatened to hit cats up for their jewels. In 2011, people are threatening to hit them up for their stocks and bonds. For years, snatchin’ somebody’s gold chain was seen as the ultimate diss in Hip Hop. Now, the symbolic act has taken on a political significance. Naw son, we don’t want your Jesus piece, you gotta give up that NASDAQ money! There has always been an element of class conflict within Hip Hop since the Sugarhill Gang blew up because of the commercial success of “Rapper’s Delight.” This did not sit well with hood cats such as the Cold Crush Brothers and others who felt that Sugarhill did not really rep the streets. Perhaps the closest that Hip Hop came in addressing class-ism was the 2002 beef between Nelly, representing corporate Hip Hop based on Wall Street  and KRS One, holding the torch for the original movement based in the South Bronx. However, for the most part, members of Hip Hop’s millionaire boys club were given a ghetto pass for the sake of “preserving Hip Hop unity.” Also, in earlier years, there was still that pipe dream that although you were poor today, if you just got a chance to get your demo in the right hands or spit a hot 16 bars for a rapper backstage at a concert, you too could live the lifestyle of the rich and shameless. But with just a handful of people lockin’ the whole game down, even the most optimistic, aspiring artist is beginning to realize, that just ain’t gonna happen. Like Mobb Deep said, “there’s a war goin’ on outside, no man is safe from.” And I’m not talking about some East Coast/West Coast beef or some confrontation over a lyrical diss. No, the war on the horizon is between the haves and the have nots. With the current socio-economic unrest in this country, it was only a matter of time before the threat of a full scale class war would come knocking on the gates of the Hip Hop Nation. Recently, we have seen a call to not only occupy Wall Street, but to #occupyhiphop , as well,  and this call will only get louder. Why?  Because now, it is not only the streets that are hungry but the ‘burbs too. Thanks to the US economy the whole world has become a “ghetto.”‘ No dude who is hustlin’ on the bitter cold streets for money to buy his baby girl some diapers wants to hear about how some Hip Hop superstar just blew a milli on a crib for his unborn child. Also, the middle class kid who used to only live out his hood fantasy, vicariously through, “gangsta rappers” has found out that being broke ain’t no joke when his dad lost his six figure job. One of the basic principals of dialectical materialism is that the seed of the destruction of capitalism lies within its own contradictions. As Kwame Nkrumah wrote in his book “Consciencism,” “running with the hares and hunting with the hounds is more than a pass-time to capitalism: it is the hub of a complete strategy.” The same can be said about Hip Hop, as rappers have tried to serve the interests of Wall Street and “the streets” simultaneously. So, the “ballin’ outta control” attitude of commercial Hip Hop artists has produced a growing resentment among those who are strugglin’ to make a dollar. It is now more evident that in the war between the oppressed and the oppressor, some Hip Hop artists have enlisted in the oppressor’s army. They have been on the front lines destroying an entire culture. As Carroll Quigley wrote in “Tragedy and Hope,” “the destructive impact of Western Civilization upon so many other societies rests on its ability to demoralize their ideological and spiritual culture as much as its ability to destroy them in a material sense with firearms.” Also, they have used the art form to mentally enslave the masses, thus helping to pacify the permanent underclass that is necessary for the present economic system to survive. Despite the idea that the rap kingpins got rich propagating that the drug game is a way to survive in poor communities, the powers that be can shut that down just as easily as they can cut off your electricity. They control both legal and illegal money and can shut down the entire hood if it goes against their economic interests. See, it’s much bigger than Hip Hop. Today, because of 360 recording deals and “branding,” a Hip Hop artist is a corporation all by himself. So, our beef is not with Shawn Carter, the artist, but with “Jay Z , Inc” and other exploiters of the poor. According to Dr. Richard Oliver and Tim Leffel in “Hip Hop Inc” “to be a member of the Hip Hop Nation, today’s consumer must not only listen, look and drive the lifestyle, they must do their financing, vacation planning and whatever else the moguls can convince them belongs in this category. “ This is a fantasy world that 99% of us can’t afford. So, we have the beginning of an uncivil, civil war between artists who sip thousand dollar bottles of booze and Hip Hop fans who can’t feed their families. How long will it last? Like Pac said “till the poor get more cash.” TRUTH Minista Paul Scott represents the Militant Mind Militia. He can be reached at [email protected]  Website http://www.militantmindmilitia.com

Exclusive – Part 2 – Boe Scaggz – The Days After The Death Of Jam Master Jay

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: Features

In Part 2 of AllHipHop.com’s interview with Jam Master Jay’s nephew Boe Scaggz (click here for Part 1), the rapper explains what happened immediately following the murder of Jam Master Jay and his thoughts on his friend, Randy Allen. In this portion, Boe explains why he left New Jersey in the days following the death of Jam Master Jay, despite his family’s disapproval.

Boe also confirms that one of the alleged gunmen, Tinard Washington (who admitted to being present but is in jail on separate robbery charges), lived in a house that was owned by Jam Master Jay. It’s significant, because sources told AllHipHop.com that the gun that was used to kill Jay, was taken from this house. Boe also speaks on Jay’s inner circle of friends, as well as Jay’s old foe, Curtis Scoon.

AllHipHop.com: Randy said that there was security cameras up in there that should’ve captured everything, but for some reason that day, the tapes weren’t working. He said that the furniture had been rearranged while Jay was on tour. Do you have any idea why the security tapes were not working that day?

Boe: I was very involved with the studio. The security cameras, the tape not being recorded, I don’t know. I heard a lot of different stories. I heard somebody came in there and stopped the tape from recording. I heard a lot of different stories about that, but I don’t really know what’s really true about that so I don’t want to speculate and say anything about that. They should’ve definitely been recording. They always record. The security cameras is rolling, they rolling all the time, then every now and then somebody might be like ‘you’ve got to go rewind the tape and record again.’ I think we used the same tape, we didn’t even change tapes. Our security cameras wasn’t really for safety, it was to see if people who was coming in was buzzing our buzzer, you know what I’m saying? If somebody buzzed the buzzer then we could see them. There wasn’t really a case where somebody was coming in to do something, that wasn’t a thought, you know what I’m saying? Nobody thought of us having no problems like that.

Boe Scaggz

AllHipHop.com: With that being said, I know that Jay had a gun in the studio with him that night. Why was Jay carrying heat?

Boe: I won’t say that he was carrying heat. I would say that we’ve got a studio, so we always had things like that in the studio to make sure we were safe still. Even though we didn’t think of nobody coming to do us no harm, but everybody knew that we was there. Everybody in Queens. You want to find Jam Master Jay, you know exactly where he is. It’s the studio right here. So of course we have firearms. You go in anybody’s studio, somebody’s walking around with firearms. S**t…I used to be the one to carry the pistol. Jay would tell me “don’t bring this, what are you doing?”

AllHipHop.com: What about the cat Goldie? I had heard that Jay had a dispute with him and he had to pull the gun on Goldie in the studio.

Boe: Nah, I don’t… nah. Jay and Goldie? Nah. Goldie was like the little homie. Even though Goldie’s older than me, Goldie was like part of Jay’s little army. He’s one of the little rap dudes from Brooklyn. Goldie’s not that kind of person towards Jay, and Jay wasn’t about to pull a gun on Goldie anyway.

AllHipHop.com: Well even though you don’t believe Randy had anything to do with it, why did your grandma get so upset that Randy took you out of New York the night of the shooting? She said it was against your will. Why after the murder did y’all have to roll out?

Boe: After all of that happened, after he got killed and all that, there was so many people outside my house. After my uncle got killed and everything, I didn’t go out of town with Randy. Me and Garnet Reid, I went to Garnet’s house. I called Garnet to go pick me up. I just finished running up on someone that they had said had been involved or had something to do with my uncle getting killed. That was a few hours after Jay had already been dead now, and the rage was starting to set in. So I’m getting back to the hood, so it’s like oh this ni**a, we can’t find him, but that’s one of his best friends right there. Oh, that’s him? And I just pow, pow, pow, so I definitely had to leave from around the hood. I had to leave. And I think somebody wrote about that somewhere too, that I did do that to somebody. I’ve seen that in a couple magazines. But that’s really the reason why I went out of town with Garnet. We went to Jersey, it’s not like I went away, away. We just went across the water so I could cool down. I just finished pistol-whipping that ni**a, so I had to go.

AllHipHop.com: During all this time, what was Terri (Jam Master Jay’s wife) and the family thinking about you and Randy in particular? Did they express any discomfort with Randy or your association with him?

Rusty Waters – Cornbread

Boe: Towards me, I don’t think my family never felt no kind of way towards me, but I don’t really know how they felt about Randy. Nobody really wanted me to be next to him, but Jay had gave me business to do with him. So Jay put me and Randy together. He gave me business. So while everybody’s saying you shouldn’t be with Randy, I’m saying “I’ve got a job to do with this man.” We signed a contract with a record label and we had a job to do. It’s not just us kicking it in the studio making songs anymore, we’ve got a job to do now.

That’s why I think, my family might’ve been upset that I kicked it with him a little longer than I should’ve, but I was thinking about my career, what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. My uncle had been the head of most of it until now, who’s going to help me? Not my grandmother, not family, they’re not going to help me. This is my career. They don’t get involved with me. So I have to make sure I still keep doing what I was supposed to be doing. And I really didn’t get a chance to learn anything that I needed to learn from Jay, you understand? I got just enough things, but s**t, I didn’t get to learn everything.

AllHipHop.com: It seems like Jay was really working and dealing with, even though he was world famous, he was still dealing with a lot of people he grew up with. He never stopped associations with people from Hollis. His studio was right in the middle of it. Which brings me up to the question of Tinard Washington. What was Tinard’s relationship with Jay like?

Boe: They seemed pretty cool. I didn’t really know Tinard when he first came around. So I’m like who is this guy? How do we know who he was? But like my mom knew him, and Jay knew him. Everybody knew who he was because he was from the neighborhood, but I didn’t know him because I guess he was in jail the whole time when I was growing up. Jay usually helps motherf**kers out when they got out of jail. You just get home, it’s like a party for you, go out and have a good time. Some people get carried away, they don’t want to leave, they don’t know how to just go back. So they wanted to stay, and Jay wanted to give the ni**a a job because now you’re walking around and you f**ked up. You ain’t got no money, so Jay want those ni**as to do something so he can pay them some money. I never really knew why Tinard was around us. I didn’t know what his purpose was. Randy knew him really well, and Randy’s brother Teddy, they all knew him. They’re all older. They’re all really older than me. They’re in their 50’s, like 40-something years old, so it was really Randy and Teddy and even Lydia knows Tinard really well. They all know him.

AllHipHop.com: I asked that because I heard Tinard was living with Jay shortly before Jay got killed. I was just wondering if you heard anything about that?

Boe: What happened was Stephon, this is my cousin, Stephon — he was staying at my grandmother’s house too. I don’t know what he was trying to do. I guess he just wanted to be around Jay. I guess he just wanted to try to make something of himself with Jay. I don’t really know what Stephon’s purpose was for being around either. Stephon and Tinard was hanging out all the time.

AllHipHop.com: Tinard’s doing like 15 years right now for robbing all them motels. But his girlfriend said that he admitted to being one of the people that shot Jay in the studio and admitted to being one of the people that killed Stretch Walker.

Boe: If the man says he has something to do with something, you can believe it, and sometimes he can be saying that he has something to do with something because he’s trying to take the lesser hand in what ni**as are trying to give him. So if they trying to say you’re the ni**a that actually shot Jay, he’s like well I didn’t shoot him. I was there, but I wasn’t the one that shot him. Sometimes it could be the truth or it could be him trying to escape the worst, you understand what I’m saying?

AllHipHop.com: The worst, yep. So that brings me up to one question that I’ve always been wondering. Okay, so let’s say for arguments sake that what Tinard said is true. That leaves the second person. Tinard is of a certain height, certain weight, certain build. I know that at first people thought that it was Curtis Scoon. But then people thought it was Big D and Lil D, the Jordans, because of their height. Did Jay have any enemies?

Boe: The only person that I really remember Jay having a problem with was Curtis Scoon. Him and Jay, they never really was cool for whatever reason. I don’t know, but they wasn’t ever really cool. Big D and Lil D, Big D… he had nothing. I understand Jay put him on, you know what I’m saying? Helped him break into Def Jam. He was a bum from across the street. Jay looked out for him, gave him something. That’s what he did for everybody that he knew. Everybody that he knew was bums around him, and he made them something. All of them.

AllHipHop.com: I interviewed Big D after the shooting. He definitely spoke highly of Jay and said it was something he would never do, obviously. But I was just wondering your take on it. Is that something either of them two would ever be considered doing?

Boe: I don’t put anything past anybody. Just as well as somebody could do things you don’t expect them to do every day. And people do things and try to hide things. I believe if any one of them knows something, then they’re all part of it, and they’d be just as worse as the ni**a that shot Jay. I believe Big D is capable of doing anything.

Back in the day, Big D used to rob banks, and one of his homeboys got caught and Big D got caught. Big D ended up snitching on one of his partners, put him in jail forever. Nobody believed Big D would do something like that, but then he did, know what I’m saying? He walks around like he’s got street cred, when he’s one of the biggest snitches in Queens, know what I’m saying? I think Big D’s really a good actor. I don’t know half the time when he’s telling the truth or when he’s lying.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Kim Kardashian Kicks Kris Curbside!

By: seandrasimsCategory: Rumors

OK, so Kim Kardashian might be the official queen of “love ’em and leave ’em!” According to TMZ, People, her rep, and a bunch of others, Kim has filed for divorce from Kris Humphries after just 72 days of marriage. Kim cites “irreconcilable differences,” saying it was “not an easy decision.” She also mentioned their living situation as a concern along with the burdens of the TV show. (Didn’t she realize he was an NBA player in the midst of a lockout? Didn’t he realize her life – and her booty – have always been front page news?)

Anyway. The Kardashians have never felt any shame for making every life event a camera-ready moment for reality TV. We have to wonder if this wedding was a sham from the very beginning – but according to this statement, Kris doesn’t sound like he was in on the joke:

“I love my wife and am devastated to learn she filed for divorce … I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make it work.”

Poor, naive Kris.

Hip-Hop Rumors: Nas Calls ‘Net “The Devil” & Other Quickies

By: JP DelaCuesta (@JPdelacuesta)Category: Rumors

Nas Calls the Internet “The Devil”…

In the November 2011 issue of XXL, Odd Future member Tyler, the Creator had the honor of interviewing Nasir for the magazine’s cover story. When asked about Nas’ thoughts on Twitter, Tumblr, and the Internet in general, he said:

“No I never look at it. I have a team that operates that sh*t for me. They’ll send me questions, and I answer them. That’s it. I was a prank caller when I was a young kid…I look at the Internet as prank callers. You don’t know who they are. They’re having fun. Actually, I’m not mad at that…You could do some good with the Internet, of course. But it’s, like, a man with horns. Not even a man–a dark force with horns–behind the whole sh*t.”

I guess that’s a good thing, the less time he spend on the internet, the more time he’ll be spending on his album, Life Is Good, which Hip-Hop needs ASAP!

Quickies:

-MF Doom will be working with the band Radiohead. Interesting would be an understatement.

-Lil Wayne, Nelly, Andre 3000, T.I. and Big K.R.I.T. will all make appearances on B.o.B.’s sophomore album Strange Clouds. Read up on our B.o.B. listening session review here.

-Justin Beiber has announced that both Kanye West and Drake will be on his next album. Beiber can currently be heard rapping alongside Busta Rhymes on his Christmas album, Under the Mistletoe. We wish that last part was a joke.

-Guinness Book of World Records has named Samuel L. Jackson the highest grossing actor of all time. That’s over 100 movies that have made over $7.4 billion, mother f*cker.

-Rumors have been swirling that actor Russell Brand and singer Katy Perry’s marriage is on the rocks, and supposedly Rihanna has something to do with this. Huhhhh? Could Ri Ri be fooling with Russell or Katy?

Shawty Lo Accused Of Cheating Producers Out Of Advances, Royalties

By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo is being sued by two Georgia producers who claim they were jerked out of advances and royalties relating to his album Units in the City.

Producers Cory Way and  Teriyakie Smith filed the lawsuit late last week against Shawty Lo and D4L Records in the Superior Court of Fulton County in the state of Georgia.

According to the producers, they entered into an oral agreement with Shawty Lo and D4L Records in November of 2007, which was supposed to have amended their original, written agreement.

According to the complaint, the pair agreed to produce Shawty Lo’s album Units in the City, which was released on a Asylum/Atlantic Records in February of 2008.

The lawsuit claims that in exchange for producing Units in the City, Shawty Lo agreed to pay Way and Smith a producer fee of $5000 per track, for any master recording they created for the rapper.

According to the lawsuit Way claims that he is owed a total of $22,500 in advances, plus a 2% royalty rate of the retail sales for each album that was sold.

Teriyakie Smith claims that he is owed a total of $30,000.

Both men claim that Shawty Lo, born Carlos Walker, advanced them tens of thousands of dollars each, but he still owes a balance for the remaining work that was completed.

Both men are seeking a combined total of $200,000 in damages.

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